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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1947
Page
8
Syracuse installs multi coin Mi Co meters replacing old penny meters in business and outlying areas. By inserting pennies or nickels motorists buy time from 1 or 2 minute increments up to two hours. With 1800 meters planned, drivers feed coins and turn the handle to set parking duration.
Members of the Syracuse City Normal School graduating class plan a reunion dinner today at 6 30 PM in Delaware Baptist Church. Mrs Norbert J Rauch of Baldwinsville is general chairman for the event.
Traffic Judge Truman Preston fined several motorists for speeding and related offenses. Names include George Halczyn of 202 School St and Edwin D. Farr of East Syracuse, with penalties ranging from 10 to 35 dollars. Others listed: John Gill, Chester Hela, Richard Palmer, Enos Waltener, Robert Tucker, Edward Hong, Walter Quinell, Mrs. Jessie Shields, and Charles Pord. one license suspended for 30 days.
Valedictorian Joan D. Washing of Percy Hughes School was honored at a Tuesday reception hosted by Mr and Mrs John Estey at their Barker Hill Road home Southwood. Out of town guests included the Haskins and Sawyer families from Fulton and Syracuse along with Mrs Roy Haskins and Iona Kinney from Southwood.
A series of birth notices from local newspapers lists new arrivals to families across Manlius Watertown and nearby communities. Entries include Mr. and Mrs. Crogin Baldwinsville and multiple households in Solvay Dewitt Liverpool and North Syracuse with June birth dates and parent names.
Commissioner Edward Corsi led a wage hearing at the Court House to consider recommended changes to minimum wage standards for the hotel and restaurant industry. Representatives from industry labor groups and workers testified.
State Comptroller Frank C. Moore told city officials to cut expenditures to ease fiscal troubles while at a Syracuse Associated Industries meeting he called local government the biggest business in the state. He urged citizens to engage more and noted state aid should not replace local responsibility. Moore cited Albany and high costs including Syracuse water and Central Railroad obligations. He warned administrations risk unwise fiscal policies when services are demanded but taxes are kept high.
In Supreme Court Tuesday Justice D Page Morehouse Jr. announced a referee will hear the remainder of the accounting action brought by John E Stearns against E C Stearns & Co. The case centers on a stipulation that four officers received 64678 dollars in salary and bonuses for the year ended June 30 1946.
Corsetti sues Ballweg Funeral Service for 10000 damages claiming injury as pallbearer at his sister in law's funeral on May 5 1945 near Monroe. He says he was wedged between a tombstone and a casket injuring his leg and ankle and cannot work after investing 1150 in a wood cutting venture.
Eleanor Lanworthy a Syracuse University home economics junior from New Rochelle has been named recipient of the Borden Company Foundation scholarship award. Dean Annie L. MacJeod announced the 300 dollar prize for a student with two or more foods and nutrition courses and a sustained honor rating. Langworthy plus Gamma Phi Beta Red Cross Council Home Economics Club Women’s Athletic Association and Junior Guide affiliations. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Merton L Langworthy.
Rep. Harold Knutson chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is slated to assail President Truman's veto of a tax reduction bill in a talk at the 32d annual meeting of the Associated Industries of New York State in Hotel Syracuse. The session opens with director elections led by Martin F. Hilsinger of Buffalo as president.
The Syracuse Peace Council says nearly six tons of food and clothing were sent abroad in the last year. Local volunteers in Syracuse and Central New York and the Mayor's committee led the effort. The Foreign Relief Section of the American Friends Service Committee spent about 7,238,840 dollars on relief and reconstruction for the year ending Sept 30, 1947.
Col Harald G. Hoffman former New Jersey governor and world traveler will speak alongside Representative Knutson at tonight's event hosted by the economics department at New York University.
Parents should use vacation to assess their children's vision and reading ability. Early attention to eyesight can improve reading enthusiasm and school performance in the next term.
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